Chapter 13

Izuma-sensei was really nice. The moment he saw she already knew all the hand seals he bathed her in compliments and moved on to the next ninja thing.

He grabbed her hands and pushed a twirling sensation into her body. Chakra he explained. Then he grabbed a leaf and made it stick to his forehead. Like, it was just standing there. What the fuck. He gave her the leaf and encouraged her to try.

She was pretty dissatisfied to say she didn't get it right the first time, or the second, or the thir- you get it. They finished taijutsu and she still couldn't do it.

It took her an actual week of training with her eyes closed trying to get the same sensations with her own chakra to get a motherfucking leaf to stay on her hands, not even her forehead, her hands.

After that she kept a leaf always on her body, trying to make sure it doesn't fall off. Then two, then three, until she was able to focus her chakra on her forehead. She kept the leaf on as much as she could, until Kakashi obviously made fun of her, so instead she kept the leaf under her skirt for the whole day.

Five leaves were currently on her thighs as she ran around the training grounds, painting like a dog and with a sore throat. She had learnt to bring a bottle or two to calm her thirst before taking the sweaty route back to the house. The threats were following her again, they had been since that day with the kids. She hadn't seen Pakkun in a long time and she kind of missed him, he was cute and nice to pet. She couldn't stay mad at him for long (she had no one else who could traduce her words.)

Yeah he had been a dick to her and then hadn't talked to her for almost two weeks but she was kind of lonely and life felt like a routine, when she was bored of studying, she ran when she was tired she studied then sleep then academy then… It's been three days and she was done.

So the next day after the Academy she just went along with Kakashi to the training grounds. It was pretty much hilarious because the guy just didn't care, about anything, just, at all. Like, that must be so infuriating for someone who actually expects him to give a single fuck, but he just doesn't. That's simultaneously cool and theatrically funny.

"What are you doing." She was already clinging on to his arm.

"I'm going to baby training."

"Hmmm. Kay."

She could probably climb on him and he wouldn't move, it would be a forced piggyback ride and he would just keep going. She wasn't going to do that, she didn't want to lose Emotional Arm Support rights. But it was hysterically funny for her.

They got to the training grounds in absolute silence and she found that she didn't mind as much anymore.

"Shut UP teme, when I'm HOKAGE I'll be your boss and you're getting D-ranks FOREVER."

"Hn"

"HA! You don't know how to answer! I win."

"Naruto leave Sasuke-kun alone! You're just jealous of Sasuke-kun, right Sasuke-kun?"

"Why would I be jealous? I'm better than him."

"Keep thinking that, dobe."

" What did you just say, teme? I'm gonna-"

"Maa, no fighting in front of the guest, you make me look bad." The kids turned to them and she smiled at them. She was so glad they didn't know she could understand them, she didn't want to be involved. They really were chaos, but the funny kind.

"Hi, Naruto, Sakura" They forgot immediately their bickering and focused on her entirely, they seemed very happy that she remembered their names. "…Sasuke" He seemed hesitant before nodding. The pink girl eyed her suspiciously and she guessed she was jealous of her. She wondered if Naruto was too, that much hate couldn't possibly be produced by the kid just by saying hi to her crush.

Naruto just seemed confused "Why does she know your name, teme? You didn't introduce yourself to her the other day." Kakashi looked at her with interest, she did her best to ignore his gaze and the death glare the girl was giving her. Careful your eyes might pop out of your sockets.

"Hn" Kakashi leaned forward towards his students and she realized that he had blocked her with his body, she was trapped between him and the kids.

"I'm interested too Sasuke, did she contact you outside of training?" She stayed silent, he wouldn't believe what she said so it had to be the kid who answered.

"She asked me to help her with hand seals during training, it just seemed normal to introduce myself."

Kakashi relaxed again. "I see. Maa, she'll be joining us today too."

"Woah, Arabella–neechan are you going to train with us? That's awesome."

"Naruto-baka she's only a academy student. There's no way she can train with us, she could get hurt!" Sakura told him confidently.

"I want to train. It's fun. I want to learn." It was actually a lot harder to speak than to understand what they were saying.

"Very well then, cute little genins… and academy student" He said with a clap and a very vicious eye smile. Oh he wanted to get back at me "We should start by practicing everything. Let's start with three laps around the training grounds and then we'll begin with some taijutsu, shurikenjutsu and maybe ninjutsu. Hmm, do you know the three Academy E-ranks?"

"Nope, leaf." She currently had like five leafs under her skirt and they just drop when she's tired. She's trying to build decent chakra control but when she forgets its hilarious, they just fall off. Frankly, it looks like she gave birth to a tiny plant. Maybe she should get rid of them at some point, it could be extremely embarrassing if she lets go by accident.

"Hmm. Alright, do you know how to escape a Genjutsu?"

"No…"

" Well, you are a academy student" She couldn't help but to raise eyebrow. She's been here for what, two weeks, and she knew plenty, she could probably skip a year in a month or something; on top of that, when she arrived she didn't understand a word, now she could speak even if it was just a word. It was an impressive work on her part and he was an asshole not acknowledging it.

"Sasuke, Naruto, since you have so much energy, you should do five laps each." Kakashi told the kids who were fighting again while she had been distracted looking at him disapprovingly.

She ran behind Naruto and Sasuke watching as they provoked each other with words she didn't understand. It had been the most interesting thing that had happened in the whole fucken week. She ended up running the five laps with them while Sakura had just sat after two.

Kakashi looked at them while she let jarred breaths and Sasuke struggled to maintain himself in a relaxed posture, his muscles flopping a little while Naruto continued to be as energetic.

She was starting to sweat badly and her heart was drumming erratically in her ears, she could feel the blood on her veins moving. The leaves stayed under her skirt.

She tried to control her breath but couldn't. How did she get in this situations, first the ducks and then the leaves, she was glad that she couldn't understand the jokes that were made about her, because she could certainly tell that there must have been a few.

"Maa, since you are all so tired we should start with shurikenjutsu. That is, if you can stand up." She knew when she was being provoked, it didn't mean she wasn't going to go head first about it. She was prideful in a weird way.

She still hit every single one of the target's center, but then the kid, Sasuke, threw three shuriken at the same time. And she felt dumb to admit she hadn't actually experimented with the only thing she was good at just because she was good compared to literal children. At least it had only taken five tries until one hit the center and the others were just close.

Fifteen minutes after she could say she was satisfied with her aim. So they moved on to taijutsu.

Getting your ass beat to the floor by children was always as fun as eating sandpaper, so it really wasn't that surprising that two out of three got her on the floor before hitting the five minutes mark.

But when she fought Naruto she saw him doing something interesting, the bushin from class but with just one hand seal. And it stayed.

"That's cool! Do it one more time." She asked and the kid beamed at the compliment. He tried to play it cool but he looked incredibly excited. Tch. Sasuke was giving them a condescending smile and she could tell Naruto was about to explode. So she diverted. "One more time, pretty please."

He light up again. "Sure thing Nee-chan. Look at my awesomeness!"

She felt his chakra divide and explode and puff, another Naruto who felt exactly like the original. There was no difference, none, they felt the same, talked the same and even smelled the same; they were both Naruto and it was fascinating, Fucking ninjas. Not a copy, just another one. Just like twins or something. Cool.

She copied his hand seal and gathered Chakra around her belly and let it travel through her until it reached every part of her body and she let go. It all left her at once. It was just like dipping in freezing water for a second then having your body adapt immediately. Did it even work?

It did. There was an exact copy of her just… there. Is that how having a twin feels like? She waved and it waved back. Do they share thoughts? There is only one way to tell. Rock, paper scissors, 123.

They didn't, but it was pretty close. They didn't share thoughts but they followed the same thought process, they are the same person.

"Arabella- chan we are going to the Hokage tower right now." Kakashi didn't look so happy. Ha! She learned it before they even tried to teach her the bunshin in the Academy. "Which one is …"She didn't understand "Real" Oh right. He wanted to take the original.

They pointed at each other.

It probably wasn't as funny as it felt but even Sasuke was smirking and that didn't look very common. Kakashi just picked them both up, like they didn't weight a thing to him. Her laugh grew louder as she waved the kids goodbye on the back of Kakashi's neck. Being picked up like a sack of potatoes was a little offensive on her opinion. She wasn't a kid.

Then he dropped one of them and the clone popped on the floor. How did he know?

When the memories of the clone reached her she was confused and disoriented for a second. The memories… That's fucking useful. She was going to abuse that, now she has clones to do everything. Clones? More like slaves. She's not going to touch a motherfucking book ever again.

He didn't put her down even after she attempted to twice, she wished she knew how to tease him about getting a close up of her us a head turn away or just ask for a piggyback.

Well this is the most fun she's had in a while.

" Hey..." Naruto said. " Why are there so many leaves in the floor."

"Hn."

"Shut up Naruto."

Omake(Can be skipped.)

She was pleasantly surprised to see the shogi kid, Shikamaru, walking around the city. She had been taking a stroll around town to waste some time until she finished the babysitting duty.

He looked surprised to see her and actually stopped to talk. That was really nice of him. After an awkward minute of him asking her something and she not having a clue he signaled to his own pocket and she realized he was making a joke about the duck thing.

"I do, one more time" She smiled to him and he smiled back, what a sweet child. Lazy but nice.

She was pretty sure he asked her to take them out. She couldn't help to blush but nodded with a smile anyway, she reached her pocket and a very enthusiastic blonde pushed him away and placed herself in front of her. Kids, always wanting to be the first of the line. Shikamaru didn't look affected at all, she figured it was fine. She took the lizards out of her pocket and placed them in her hands.

Her scream rang on her ears for three hours after that and the original laughed at her for a solid ten minutes. Get the clone on babysitting duty, they said, they adore it, they said. She did not. She spent five minutes picking baby lizards from the floor while the kid wept in the background, Shikamaru helped her pick up lizards and apologized. He was a good kid.

She didn't like the blond.